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...prologue of Lauren Willig??s “The Deception of the Emerald Ring” is promising. Grandma is playing matchmaker for Harvard history graduate student Eloise Kelly, the novel’s intermittent first-person narrator...
This opening dialogue offers the potential for an insightful critique of the societal tendency to conflate persons and property. Unfortunately, instead of developing this theme (not so foreign to the aspiring i-banker set), the novel descends into hackneyed tropes of the romance genre. This third installment of Willig??s “Pink Carnation” series is ultimately concerned with providing the reader vicarious erotic gratification...
...Deception of the Emerald Ring” betrays its author’s ability to write intelligent witticisms. I can only hope that Willig??s future fiction endeavors will have less slush to slide through...
...Willig??s doctoral dissertation was less patient. She continued to write Carnation through the summer of 2002, but in the fall of that year, she headed to London for a year-long academic research jaunt not unlike that of Eloise Kelly in her novel...
...Willig??s next mission took her back to the States on a “totally accidental” turn to Harvard Law School...